Apply for the Poster Colloquium Library Showcase, a juried poster exhibition

Applications due May 10, 2026

Judges will attend the URCA Week Poster Colloquium at Corwin Pavilion and select 13 posters to be reprinted and displayed. Priority will be given to posters that follow design best practices with cover letters that express their research process.  Posters will be displayed in the Library's West Mountain Gallery. 

All URCA Week Poster Colloquium participants will be sent application information via Qualtrics.

To ensure a range of disciplines will be represented in the exhibit, posters will be judged in one of the three following divisions: Humanities and Fine Arts; Social Sciences; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

If applying as a group, list the first author as primary contact and submit only one application per poster. We will be contacting the accepted presenters via email, so please check your email regularly for additional information.

Poster Judging Rubric

At the event, posters will be judged on the following criteria with a 10-point scale for the following aspects

• Clarity: Does the poster provide enough background knowledge and context to make the talk understandable and compelling to a general audience?
• Organization: Are viewers able to understand the presenters' motivations and progression of the work?
• Delivery and Presentation: Does the poster engage the audience? Do graphic elements enhance the presentation and help to emphasize the primary points of the research? Are visuals well designed?
• Intellectual Significance: Does the poster explain why the project matters (for example, its significance to the academic discipline)?

While presenters may engage with judges at the Colloquium, posters will be judged with the expectation that they can stand on their own with no supplemental presentation or clarifications.